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63191 as http://kvnf.orgMon, 05 Dec 2016 21:47:10 +0000KVNF Regional Newscast: December 5, 2016Jeff ReynoldsOne year ago, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made its historic flyby of Pluto.Western Slope Skies - Pluto Updatehttp://kvnf.org/post/western-slope-skies-pluto-update
58042 as http://kvnf.orgFri, 15 Jul 2016 13:00:00 +0000Western Slope Skies - Pluto UpdateScott Neumanhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydU-YrG_INk Pluto looks to be a far cry from the dead body that many scientists had long presumed. As the New Horizons probe continues to report back from the fringes of the solar system, a word that Mr. Spock might have used sums up the reaction: fascinating. The latest snapshots represent only 1 to 2 percent of the data collected in the flyby — many more gigabits have yet to be sent across the billions of miles of interplanetary space. The images show an area at the center of a now-famous heart-shaped feature, informally dubbed "Tombaugh Regio" after Pluto's discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh. The newest features to be revealed are Sputnik Planum (named after the first artificial satellite) — a vast ice plain segmented by troughs — and the hills of Norgay Montes, named after the Nepali Sherpa who, along with Edmund Hillary, first summited Mount Everest. NASA put together this animated flyby of the region: "Who would have expected this kind of complexity?" AlanNASA's New Pluto Images Point To Geologically Active Worldhttp://kvnf.org/post/nasas-new-pluto-images-point-geologically-active-world
44027 as http://kvnf.orgTue, 21 Jul 2015 21:10:49 +0000NASA's New Pluto Images Point To Geologically Active WorldBlack Canyon Astronomical SocietyOn February 18 th , 1930, a 24-year-old Kansas farmhand-turned-astronomer made a discovery that forever changed our understanding of the Solar System. On that evening, Clyde Tombaugh , who had grown up on family farms in Illinois and Kansas, discovered Pluto. Tombaugh’s discovery nearly doubled the size of the known solar system overnight. Whether you prefer to call it a planet or a dwarf planet, for more than eight decades Pluto has remained one of the most poorly understood objects in the solar system, due to its small size and great distance from Earth. All that is about to change though; in mid-July, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will arrive at Pluto after a nearly decade-long journey to the outer reaches of the solar system. This will be the first time that Pluto and its five small moons have been visited by a space probe. What exactly New Horizons will find remains a mystery. Even the best pictures of Pluto taken from Earth show little more than a fuzzy gray ball. DetailedWestern Slope Skies: New Horizons at Plutohttp://kvnf.org/post/western-slope-skies-new-horizons-pluto
43392 as http://kvnf.orgFri, 03 Jul 2015 13:00:00 +0000Western Slope Skies: New Horizons at PlutoGeoff BrumfielSaturn's moon Enceladus is a mystery. From Earth it looks tiny and cold, and yet it's not a dead hunk of rock. Passing spacecraft see trenches and ridges, similar to Earth's, and in 2005 NASA's Cassini mission spotted ice geysers streaming from its south pole. "The moon is actually alive in a sense," says Sean Hsu with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Beneath the surface, most researchers believe it even has a liquid ocean. Now Hsu and his colleagues have found new evidence that it's a downright balmy ocean. The team used the Cassini spacecraft, which orbits Saturn, to detect tiny particles of silica floating in space. It's not sand exactly, but researchers think the particles did come from the bottom of Enceladus' ocean. The silica particles could only be made if that ocean were hot. "We think that the temperature at least in some part of the ocean must be higher than 190 degrees Fahrenheit," Hsu says. "If you could swim aResearchers Think There's A Warm Ocean On Enceladushttp://kvnf.org/post/researchers-think-theres-warm-ocean-enceladus
38771 as http://kvnf.orgThu, 12 Mar 2015 09:04:00 +0000Researchers Think There's A Warm Ocean On EnceladusJoe PalcaThis Sunday night, we headed back to Mars: NASA's MAVEN spacecraft fired its six main engines, slowing down enough so it could be captured by the gravity of the red planet and go into orbit. MAVEN, which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, is a distinctly un-sexy name for a project as cool as a sojourn to Mars. But whatever it's called, the probe is on a mission that should be of interest to everyone who likes living on Earth. You can describe the point of the mission in one simple sentence: "The MAVEN Mission is about understanding the history of the climate on Mars," says Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado in Boulder, who has been working on this mission for more than a decade. At a news conference last week, Jakosky explained that something happened in the past billion years or so that changed the climate on Mars dramatically. He says when you look at aerial pictures of the Martian surface, you see unmistakable signs that Mars was once upon a time a fairlyMission To Study Mars' Climate Enters Red Planet's Orbithttp://kvnf.org/post/mission-study-mars-climate-enters-red-planets-orbit
31727 as http://kvnf.orgSun, 21 Sep 2014 21:02:00 +0000Mission To Study Mars' Climate Enters Red Planet's OrbitScott NeumanEarth is in the line of fire of a powerful solar flare that has already begun hitting us, but most of the energy from the Coronal Mass Ejection , or CME, will skirt safely by, scientists say, with major disruptions to the electric grid, satellites and communications unlikely. But if you're lucky — and far enough north — you might see a nice display of aurora borealis. Sky Solar Flare Could Trigger Auroras Tonight For Northern U.S.http://kvnf.org/post/solar-flare-could-trigger-auroras-tonight-northern-us
31398 as http://kvnf.orgFri, 12 Sep 2014 16:34:00 +0000Solar Flare Could Trigger Auroras Tonight For Northern U.S.Laura PalmisanoThe federal government and municipal water providers in four Western states have reached an agreement to fund Colorado River conservation projects. The $11 million deal was announced Thursday. Municipal water providers in Arizona, California, Nevada and Colorado and the Bureau of Reclamation have agreed to fund projects to conserve Colorado River water. Denver Water CEO Jim Lockhead said Denver is one of the four municipalities participating in the program. Lockhead said half of Denver’s water supply comes from the Colorado River. "This pool of money is really designed to try and fund pilot programs that would test different [water conservation] ideas whether it is agricultural water use or industrial use or municipal use," he said. "Anything should be eligible for funding to demonstrate how we can reduce our demand when we’re in a drought." The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people in seven states and Mexico. A recent study from NASA and the University of California,Feds, Western Water Providers To Fund Colorado River Conservation Projectshttp://kvnf.org/post/feds-western-water-providers-fund-colorado-river-conservation-projects
29663 as http://kvnf.orgFri, 01 Aug 2014 21:57:46 +0000Feds, Western Water Providers To Fund Colorado River Conservation ProjectsLaura PalmisanoThe drought-stricken Colorado River Basin is drying up faster than was thought, according to a recent study. NASA and the University of California, Irvine used satellite data gathered over a nine year period to track changes in the mass of the Colorado River Basin that has been experiencing severe drought since 2000. The scientists looked at monthly measurements between December 2004 and November 2013. They found the basin lost nearly 53 million acre feet of freshwater, that's nearly double the volume of Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir, during that period. The study said about 41 million acre feet of that lost water was groundwater. The basin provides water to millions of people in seven Western states: Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. It also supplies water to roughly four million acres of farmland.Drought-Stricken Colorado River Basin Drying Up Quicker Than Thoughthttp://kvnf.org/post/drought-stricken-colorado-river-basin-drying-quicker-thought
29599 as http://kvnf.orgThu, 31 Jul 2014 19:46:09 +0000Drought-Stricken Colorado River Basin Drying Up Quicker Than ThoughtBrian CambriaHeadlines: Renewable Energy bills for rural electrical associations awaits governor’s signature Small plane crash-lands on Highway 50 in North Delta Williams cited for leak by state NASA and CU invite you to send your name to Mars (find web link below) Migratory Bird Day is May 11 (find web link below) Legislature to end on a High NoteKVNF Local Newscast: Friday, May 03, 2013http://kvnf.org/post/kvnf-local-newscast-friday-may-03-2013
9812 as http://kvnf.orgFri, 03 May 2013 14:40:59 +0000KVNF Local Newscast: Friday, May 03, 2013Christy EllerCome find out what the iSeeChange online Almanac is all about!TheAlmanac.org Launch Party!http://kvnf.org/post/thealmanacorg-launch-party
5203 as http://kvnf.orgMon, 14 Jan 2013 18:45:17 +0000TheAlmanac.org Launch Party!Jessica AllenReleased 10.9.12 Drag City In the malevolence of Ty Segall's 2012 album onslaught (this is #4 if you include his tasty, old-time-high-fi collaboration with White Fence ), Twins is the most organized- like a less-severe natural disaster. As the cover depicts, we're still in for a mind-bend, but it's as if some of the sheer fuzz was combed & suited by NASA in preparation for a space launch. -DJ JurassicaTy Segal // Twinshttp://kvnf.org/post/ty-segal-twins
1629 as http://kvnf.orgMon, 15 Oct 2012 18:14:25 +0000Ty Segal // TwinsJulia Kumari DrapkinWhat happens when a family of ranchers and coal miners sit down for breakfast with a climate scientist from NASA, to talk about global warming and drought? For iSeeChange and KVNF, Julia Kumari Drapkin found out.iSeeChange: A Climate Connection for Breakfasthttp://kvnf.org/post/iseechange-climate-connection-breakfast-0
8463 as http://kvnf.orgMon, 27 Feb 2012 18:07:22 +0000iSeeChange: A Climate Connection for Breakfast